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FINE ART PRINTS

PRINTS DESIGNED FOR FINE ART AND WALL MOUNT DISPLAYS.
These fine art images are typically offered both as stand-alone prints as well as complimentary components of a series of images that relate to each other to reveal their mutual and collective stories. Ron personally guarantees your satisfaction on the purchase of any Fine Art prints.

Behind our yard, the ground slopes down into a canyon that serves as part of the watershed to Wolf Creek - a trail for gold rush pioneers traveling the Overland Emigrant Trail and led them to the California 'gold country' towns as well as the lush Sacramento Valley. Mountain vistas and wildlife abound.

Backyard Series - Two bucks on a winter's day deal with it differently. The buck on the ground has been there for hours as seen in the photo "Waiting."
In Series with both "Waiting" and "Winter Search."

Backyard Series - Taken in Alta Sierra California during a December snowfall, a mature buck and a doe relax in an open patch of forest. While the buck rests, surrounded by several inches of accumulated snow, the doe alertly listens for any sound that pierces the solemn quiet.
In backyard Series with both 'Summer Repose" and "A Winter's Day in the Backyard"

Natural History – Wildlife Folder:- A lone buck searches for a doe - seen in the distant trees - on the morning after a December snow. Available in Fine Art Backyard Series with both 'Summer Repose" and "A Winter's Day in the Backyard"

Backyard Series - Two does languish in a sea of delicious spring grasses. This scene represents the summer version of "Winter Search." The pair side-by-side tell silent stories from the lives of a local mule deer herd.

Emigrant Gap Series - The sun is setting. Mists rise to mark a day-long storm passes. A flock of birds rushes to get to the night's nest. This composite photo marks the first of the Emigrant Gap photo series .

Landscapes instantly transport us to another place while delivering a visual grandeur that touches our primal DNA.
These photos occur in subject series. The Sierra Nevada mountain range can be seen from multiple perspectives – east and western sides. From the west - the photos series of the Crystal Range Mountains and The Emigrant Gap are taken from my California foothills home. From the east - the desert series were taken en route to Mono Lake which lies on the eastern side of the . The lake photos range from the Desolation Wilderness to Yosemite. Other locations and series are noted in the image descriptions.

Morning Mist at the Emigrant Gap

Emigrant Gap Series - Emigrant Gap Series - it rained all night. The moisture flowed through the canyons like finger of fog as the sun began to break above the horizon. Cisco butte - the half-dome-like peak, rightof center, marks the passage of the trail through 'The Gap' to Donner Lake and the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Landscape Series - Mono Lake lies east of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada moutain range. It marks the beginning of the vast desert Great Basin which spans from Idaho to Arizona. This photo adds space and openness to an office or closed space.

Commercial - Alta Sierra Folder - Emigrant Gap Series - the canyon trail through 'The Gap' can be seen clearly snaking from the center of the photo - right then left then right again - to the half-dome-like Cisco Butte. This deep snow scene was much like the ones the Donner Lake rescure team faced as they had to get to the dying Donner party on the other side. The setting sun highlights the storm clouds just clearing after a harsh winter day.

Desert Sand Endless Sky - near Tonopah, NV

Landscape Folder - Highway 6, Nevada-California Border on way to Mono Lake- Nevada Desert Basin on lonely highway 6 leading to Mono Lake. Once a 500 feet deep lake, the broad, seemingly infinite desert basin, stretch hundreds of miles north, south and east of this point..

Landscape - Crystal Range Series - The Crystal Mountain Range, a 400 mile long stretch of the Sierra Nevada range, serves as the watershed for Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness on the other side of this view.

A photo series celebratig the grace and regal imagery of the Great White Egret.

The Great White Egret, also known as a heron, is a large, graceful and majestic bird. They are plentiful in the many small lakes and ponds near my home. These are a few photos that capture the grace and regal architype they convey.

Heron in Repose

Great White Egret Series - a Great Heron (egret) takes a respit on a local pond on Alta Sierra, CA

The Angel Series attempts to capture the compelling architype of the angel evident in every major religion in the world.

While researching my book "Forgotten Faces" I explored many cemeteries and found the many beautiful statues of angels fascinating. The angel architype manifests itself in every major religion today and every major culture since Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia.
These images were created from photos of angel memorials found in cemeteries across the country during my research.

Leading the Way

The Angel Series

THE GUARDIANS OF LIGHT

The Angel and Fine Art Series - A composite of memorial statues and masoleums, this image is one of my favorite and has always conveyed a sense of timelessness that I find very soothing.

Returning Home

The Angel Series - This image originates from a bronze door on a mausoleum in Colma CA.

Contemplation

Silhouette Series - taken from Cypress Lawn cemetery in Colma, CA.

The ancient coins of Greece and Rome were designed by the finest artists of their rule.

I have collected ancient Greek and Roman coins for decades. The images on them were used as a key form of a ruler 's power and credibility and typically were created by many of the finest artists of their era. Without newspapers or instant contact across the realm, coins represented a ruler best distribution for propoganda and self-advertising. These images possess the added dimension being worn and smoothed by centuries of passing from one hand to another. Patinas of different colors, depending on the metals used, developed over the millenia and add fascinating texture and tone to the original art.

Ptolemy's Zeus Ammon

Greek Bronze from Ptoolemy IV who ruled from 221--205 BCE. Zeus Ammon is issued in deference to Alexander the Great. The Oracle of Ammon in Egypt, west of Alexandria was honored by Alexander after he conquered that territory and founded Alexandria.

Roman bronze coin of Emperor Hadrian with deep red and yellow patina circa 120 AD depicts a quadriga - a chariot driven by four horses typically used for chariot races and victory parades as a show of strength and domination.

For several centuries from The Macedonian Ptolomeies created some of the largest classical coins from 305 BC to 30 BC in their series of bronze issues dominated by portraits of Zeus. This Ptolemaic III portrait originated around 246-240BCE.

Fine Art - Front Yard Series: Our front yard in November looking north from the southwest corner - the same spot as the previous spring perspective. The trees from right to left are American Cherry, Smoke Tree, Higan Cherry, birch.

Fine Art - Front Yard Series: Yes there is a cat at the center of this high dynamic range photo. Daisy walked on to the path and into the picture just as it was being shot. Spring color in our front yard from south west corner looking south. Azaleas and cherry tree blooms.

The art form of the silhouette conveys its message within the boundaries of an outline of solid color and shape, Outlines communicate more quickly to our brain and speak directly to our unconscious. The silhouette as ancient as 1000 BCE Greek vases, Egyptian hieroglyphs and cave drawings. They speak to our DNA. These contre-jour examples - pointing directly to the source of the light - bring that dialogue to life.

Silhouette Series - a photo taken at sunset looking up through winter bare oak trees serves as the genesis for this digital play. Gurdjieff spoke about the fractal pattern Oak trees produce actually reveals and makes our eyes percieve elements of the fourth dimension. That may be evident in these examples from the Silhoette Series.

Louise Among the Oaks

Silhouette Series - Louise Bajada was eleven years old when she died in 1918. The portrait on her tombstone spoke to me across the arch of time and served as the genesis for my book on memorial portraiture, "Forgotten Faces." The link to it is on the main MENU.
Ouspensky believed the growth patterns of oak trees revealed elements of the fourth dimension. This image merges these aspects into the mystical sense I have always felt looking into Louise's eyes that day in Holy Cross Cemetery. Then finding and meeting with her family to hear personal story and write the first complete reference on memorial portraits ever written. These eyes on that stone made all that happen.